Profitably Soaked: Thoreau's Engagement With Water

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Summary: Reveals a shining window into the life of a great writer
Review: Exhaustively researched and deftly edited by Robert Lawrence France (Associate Professor, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts), Profitably Soaked: Thoreau's Engagement With Water compiles quotations by Henry David Thoreau from all of his many works, and arranged them under the headings "Adventure," "Joy," "Contact," and "Contemplation." Dwelling in particular on water as a medium that Thoreau used to immerse himself in nature and live life to the fullest, Profitably Soaked is an expressive and thoughtful collection that reveals a shining window into the life of a great writer and thinker. Profitably Soaked is a welcome and innovative contribution to Thoreau Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists.